Harold J. Laski: “To be one with that activity may well then be regarded as the highest freedom a citizen can know.”

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.